Hi, is the audio editor in Camtasia capable of modifying accents or speech tone? for example, converting videos where the narrator has a heavy/distinct accent to one with more of a neutral accent
Posted 2 years ago
Timbre4, Champion
Jack Fruh, Champion
To add to what Timbre4 mentioned - no I don't think there is anything anywhere at any price that will do what you mentioned.
There is a tool by soundtoys called little alterboy which will pitch shift a voice, but that's really only good for making someone sound lightly more or less masculine/femine. what you're asking for is to outright change the voice to sound like someone else with a different accent. The way thats done today is to have someone with that accent record your audio - I've hired voiceover people from fiverr.com and had good results.
Adobe recently showed off some promising technology that made use of machine learning to feed in hours and hours of audio from a single actor, the machine would learn how they enunciate sounds and could convincingly synthesize them saying things they have never recorded.
Much how photoshop has made photographs hard to tell if they are real/fake, I'd expect this new technology to do the same for voice recordings. but I think we're probably a few years from the first commerical product and probably a decade or more before that's in everyday consumer products.
There is a tool by soundtoys called little alterboy which will pitch shift a voice, but that's really only good for making someone sound lightly more or less masculine/femine. what you're asking for is to outright change the voice to sound like someone else with a different accent. The way thats done today is to have someone with that accent record your audio - I've hired voiceover people from fiverr.com and had good results.
Adobe recently showed off some promising technology that made use of machine learning to feed in hours and hours of audio from a single actor, the machine would learn how they enunciate sounds and could convincingly synthesize them saying things they have never recorded.
Much how photoshop has made photographs hard to tell if they are real/fake, I'd expect this new technology to do the same for voice recordings. but I think we're probably a few years from the first commerical product and probably a decade or more before that's in everyday consumer products.
Please take a look at the questions I posed to Timbre4. I'd appreciate any information you have.
Best,
Tony
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Tony
tony.lima
Best,
Tony
Joe Morgan
They need to be able to act as well. The accent is all on them.Here's one site I searched on the subject. https://www.quora.com/How-do-actors-learn-accents-that-are-extremely-different-from-their-own
tony.lima
BTW, Meryl Streep is vigorously applauding your reply.
Joe Morgan
I use Adobe Audition. I can record a set of edits "Favorites"
So with one click I apply the Parametric Equalizer, Normalize, Dynamics Processing, Normalize "Again", Noise Reduction.
By the time that's all applied. I could have a cold on some clips and you would have a hard time figuring out which ones. But I wouldn't have an accent.lol
Joe Morgan
You may find it interesting. maybe not?
tony.lima